An elderly woman was fined with 120,000 euros administrative penalty by the police in Volos for dumping four new born kittens in a garbage bin. She had put them in a tightly closed plastic bag which she threw to the bin near her home on Monday night. The 75-year-old woman …
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Hellenic Train fined €300K for stranding passengers, poor service
Rail operator Hellenic Train SA was fined 300,000 euros by Greece’s Railroad Regulatory Authority (RAS) for stranding 820 passengers in harsh weather conditions on January 24, when five trains were stuck on the major north-south train route of Greece. Following a months-long review of Hellenic Train, a subsidiary of Ferrovie …
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Crete: Man arrested for torturing dog with electroshock collar
A 67-year-old man was arrested on the island of Crete and fined with 15,600 euros for the torture of his dog with an electroshock collar. It was another resident of the area near Heraklio who filmed the dog’s abuse and denounced the incident to police. A video posted on social …
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Santorini gas station fined 29th 5,000 euros for fuel profiteering
A gas station on the popular touristic island of Santorini was fine with 5,000 euro for fuel profiteering, the Ministry of Development and Development and Investments said on Monday. The fine was imposed after control checks by members of the Interagency for Market Control (DIMEA) who found out that the …
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Greece CoS: Mandatory vaccination “constitutional”, fine “reasonable”
Greece’s highest court, the Council of State has ruled that the mandatory vaccination against Covid-19 for those aged over 60 is “constitutionally tolerable” and the monthly fine of 10o euros is a “reasonable motive.” According to a statement issued by the President of the Council of State, the judges participating …
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Greece’s top court to decide if €100 fine to unvaccinated over 60 is “legal”
Greece’s top court, the Council of State, has been called to decide whether the 100-euro monthly fine imposed to unvaccinated citizens over 60 is legal and conform with the country’s Constitution and the European Convention of Human Rights. Several citizens over 60, unvaccinated against Covid-19, appealed to the CoS demanding …
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Just 14% of unvaccinated over 60 have paid the fine; debtors threatened with assets confiscation
Only 14 percent of unvaccinated Greeks aged over 60 have paid the administrative fine imposed by the government in January, according to data from the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE). Holdouts were fined 100 euros a month (in January the fine was 50 euros as the measure went into …
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Greece to abolish fine of €100 per month for unvaccinated over 60 UPDATE 2
Alternate Health Minister Mina Gaga said on Wednesday that the fine of 100 euros for unvaccinated citizens over 60 years old will be abolished next month. The fine was practically making mandatory the vaccination against COVId-19 for citizens over a certain age. Speaking to Skai TV on Wednesday, Gaga confirmed …
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Greek gov’t books fine to 317,962 unvaccinated citizens over 60
The Greek government proceeded with the fine on unvaccinated citizens over 60 years old, despite the economic bottleneck due to the energy prices and the global instability due to the Russian war in Ukraine. The fines for 317,962 people over 60 for the month of January have been booked, and …
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Attiki Odos fined 2 million euros for shutdown during snowstorm
The Infrastructure and Transport Ministry said on Wednesday that it is imposing a fine of 2 million euros to the managing companies of the ring highway Attiki Odos for the shutdown during the snowstorm last month. IT is the highest fine permitted by the law. Minister Kostas Karamanlis has decided …
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Greece to pay €127 million to EU over poor plastic recycling record
Greece will have to pay around 127 million euros to the European Union this year due to its low performance in recycling plastic packaging. The fine is aimed at increasing the recycling of plastics across the EU. According to a study on the role of plastics in the circular economy …
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Greece’s giant mobile phone operator fined with €9.5million over data breach
Greece’s telecommunications giant mobile phone operator Cosmote and parent company OTE have been slapped with fines of over 9 million euros by Greece’s Data Protection Authority over a breach of user records in September 2020. The Greek watchdog fined Cosmote 6 million euros for failing to protect a file containing …
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Anti-vaxxers send One-Trillion-Euro fine to Governor of South Aegean
Anti-vaxxers have sent a fine order amounting almost 1.8 trillion euros was sent to the governor of South Aegean, Giorgos Hatzimarkos and members of the Regional Council. The payment order should be settled within 20 days, the document notes. The fine order was sent by the so-called “native indigenous Greeks”, …
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Up to 2 years imprisonment for anti-vaxxer parents who don’t send their children to school
Anti-vaxxer parents who do not send their children to school will be punished with up to 2 years imprisonment and fines, the Greek Education Ministry ruled in an amendment submitted to the Palriament late on Tuesday. The tough measure comes as parents and guardians who oppose vaccinations against Covid-19 and …
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Greece makes mandatory vaccination for all over 60 or €100 monthly fine (POLL)
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday that vaccination against Ccovid-19 becomes mandatory for all those aged over 60 years old. Those who remain unvaccinated will be fined with 100 euros on a monthly basis. Speaking at a cabinet meeting the Greek PM said that there are currently 580,000 …
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Greece fines asylum-seekers with €5,000 for arriving without Covid-test UPD
Greek Police has been imposing fines of 5,000 euros to asylum-seekers entering the country by boat under the pretext of violating the coronavirus protocol and not showing or having a Covid-19 test upon arrival. Sheer racist vindictiveness or just an mean trick to increase revenues from the needy ones? In …
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Greece lifts major lockdown restrictions but 300-euro fine remain
Greece lifted major lockdown restrictions on Friday, however, some measures remain and citizens must continue to implement the rules for personal protection. Otherwise they face a fine of 300 euros. Wearing masks in- and outdoors is a must and the measure is implemented also in vehicles when driver and passengers …
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Property owners at risk to be expelled from short-term rental platforms Airbnb & Co
Legislative changes to be implemented from June 1 threaten to expel property owners in Greece from short term rental platforms like Airbnb etc if they do not comply with the provisions. Property owners who do not declare their properties in the Register of Short-Term Lease of Real Estate of AADE …
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“Greece’s Next Top Model” fined for shoot in NATURA protected Elafonisos dunes
TV Reality Show “Greece’s Next Top Model” got fined 3,000 euro for conducting a shoot by driving a 4X4 on the sandy beaches of the tiny island Elafonisos, which is a NATURA 2000 area. The fine was imposed as, according to a relevant Recommendation of the Department of Environment and …
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Granny fined €300 for “unnecessary movement” during lockdown
Police officers in Lamia, central Greece, fined an 80-year-old granny with 300 euros for “unnecessary movement” during the lockdown restrictions. The fine is a slap in the face of the ethos of a whole society as it comes just two days after the corona-party with the Prime Minister and an …
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